Chapter 14 (2/2)

Zhen Zhilan then entered the inner layer of the Shrine and reported this to Zhen Nantian.

After knowing that Xia Qingchen would help him cure his old injuries, his aged eyes involuntarily gleamed with agitation and anticipation.

“Grandpa, can I go and cultivate the [Traversing Snow, Flowering Plum] now?” Zhen Zhilan still couldn’t forget how powerful this martial skill was.

Zhen Nantian nodded. “You can. However, you have to make a copy and auction it out.”

“Ah, why?” Zhen Zhilan asked.

Zhen Nantian sighed, “Hasn’t your grandfather suffered enough from cultivating the [Fragmented Heaven-Mending Scroll]? Make a copy and hold an auction. You should wait for someone else to cultivate it first. If that person is fine, it wouldn’t be too late for you to start.”

After pausing for a moment, Xia Nantian added, “Naturally, the auction copy will be an abridged version. Remove 50% of the important points.”

This meant that the abridged version of the [Traversing Snow, Flowering Plum] would only have a quarter of the full content.

“Grandpa, your heart is so black!” Zhen Zhilan sighed. Her grandfather glared at her and she instantly changed her words. “I mean grandpa has deep foresight. I was praising you!”

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After returning to the Xia Manor.

Xia Qingchen looked for Uncle Qin and spoke, “This is a Thunderfire Char. Pass this to father and tell him to cut out a hole in it. After that, he should use and meditate inside the Thunderfire Char every night for a month. It would definitely benefit him.”

Uncle Qin was completely clueless. He then took this piece of wood that was seemingly about to rot.

Xia Qingchen was preparing to enter the cultivation chamber. However, all of a sudden, he heard Grudgy reading out ancient poems in his father’s study.

This fellow. Ever since he came to the Xia Manor, he had been focusing on reading the books of mankind.

“Hold on, Uncle Qin.” Xia Qingchen took some paper and ink. He wrote a cultivation-type martial skill on the spot. “Doesn’t Grudgy likes to read? Pass this to him from me.”

What he could do was to give Grudgy some basic stuff. As to what achievements the white puppy could have in the future, it all depended on its own comprehension ability.

“Yes, young master.” Uncle Qin held the two items in his hands before he left.

There were no longer any other matters for Xia Qingchen. He immediately entered the cultivation chamber for seclusion.

Inside it, he took out the ingredients of the Dragonblood Powder and began concocting.

With the experience from his past life, his concoction process was like floating clouds and flowing water. There was no difficulty at all.

Half a day later, he felt some fatigue as he rubbed his sore arm.

But before him, there were now ten boxes of red-colored spirit powder. Each box had bubbles churning and seemed as though they were boiling.

“Success.” Xia Qingchen picked up a box and inclined his head to consume it.

A moment later, a feeling of heat flowed down his throat into his stomach.

It felt like he was ingesting a box of blazing fire. His entire body felt a scorching pain.

“Compared to that intense pain I felt long ago, what does this bit of pain count for?” Xia Qingchen gritted his teeth.

If one wanted to wear the crown, they had to undertake the responsibility.

If he wished to attain his previous peak and become the king of all gods, he had to endure the pain and constantly sharpen himself on a grindstone.

Just like this, he forcibly endured the torment and activated the four major meridians and forty-one minor meridians in his body, circulating the medicinal potency to his four limbs, arteries, and veins.

The circulation speed in all his martial meridians increased. The most direct effect was that his absorption speed of the essence of heavens and earth was now twice as fast compared to earlier.

After the essence qi entered his body, it settled down in his major and minor meridians, becoming the inner force of martial cultivators.

With the medicinal potency still lingering in his body, Xia Qingchen did his best to absorb essence qi as quickly as he could before it faded.

Finally, half a month later.

He opened his eyes. Slamming his palms on the ground, he bounced up from where he sat.

A silvery-white qi was faintly floating on his skin.

This indicated that someone had stepped into the fifth radiance-level of the minor constellation stage.

By using the Dragonblood Powder, he cultivated with twice the results for half the effort. He successfully cleared his fifth major meridian and reached the fifth radiance-level of the minor constellation realm.

Together with his forty-one minor meridians, the inner force in his body was almost at the sixth radiance-level.

If he cultivated for another half a month, he should be able to clear nine more minor meridians.

However, he most probably had to stop cultivating now.

Today was the date his younger female cousin would arrive. His father had instructed him that he had to welcome and receive her.